Built For Speed, Playlist, Friday 22nd March 2013

BUILT FOR SPEED, PLAYLIST, 22nd MARCH 2013 1.     SEBADOH – Keep the boy alive. 2.     SASKWATCH – I Get Lonely. (Aus) 3.     THE DATSUNS – Gold Halo.(Aus) 4.     THE PARTING GIFTS – Keep walking. 5.     DIRE STRAITS – Twisting by the pool. 6.     JON SPENCER BLUES EXPLOSION – Danger. 7.     CALEXICO – Black Heart. 8.     MATTHEW SWEET & SUSANNA HOFFS

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Film review: GREAT EXPECTATIONS, from Built For Speed

With their wonderful, ornate prose and vivid imagery, Charles Dickens’ novels seem ideally suited to cinema adaptations.  David Lean realized this potential magnificently with his atmospheric 1946 version of Great Expectations.  Less successful was Alfonso Cuaron’s miscalculated modern day version of Great Expectations with Ethan Hawke and Robert de Niro. The latest adaptation of this novel, from British director Mike

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